Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation has gone to great lengths to give its citizens a clean and green city. A clean city involves services in different areas like Sanitation, Greenery Maintenance and Health. The Health and Sanitation Department ensures a clean city and is headed by the Additional Commissioner, Health and Sanitation, duly assisted by the Chief Medical Officer of Health, a Biologist and the Veterinary Officer at the city level and Assistant Medical Officers of Health at Circle levels. 

The Department is engaged in Solid Waste Management and Public Health to keep the city neat and clean. Veterinary work, anti-malaria operations, issue of Birth and Death Certificates and Issue of Trade Licenses are the supporting activities of the department.